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Narrative Soundings: An Anthology of Narrative Inquiry in Music Education Margaret S. Barrett (cid:129) Sandra L. Stauffer Editors Narrative Soundings: An Anthology of Narrative Inquiry in Music Education Editors Margaret S. Barrett Sandra L. Stauffer The University of Queensland Arizona State University School of Music School of Music Level 4, Zelman Cowen Building Tempe, AZ Brisbane, QLD USA Australia [email protected] [email protected] ISBN 978-94-007-0698-9 e-ISBN 978-94-007-0699-6 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-0699-6 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2012933576 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfi lming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifi cally for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Contents Resonant Work: Toward an Ethic of Narrative Research .......................... 1 Margaret S . Barrett and Sandra L. Stauffer Part I Lives in Music and Musical Practices Lives in Music and Musical Practices: A Prelude ....................................... 21 Margaret S . Barrett and Sandra L. Stauffer Engaging Stories: Constructing Narratives of Women’s Military Band Members ................................................................................................ 23 Janet Cape and Jeananne Nichols Jeremiah Jones and the Musical Crusade .................................................... 37 David Cleaver Learning in a Teen Garage Band: A Relational Narrative Inquiry ........... 61 Jane Baker “Sheer Spine”: Evoking Past and Present in the Southern Highlands .............................................................................. 79 Nathan B. Kruse Part II Singular Stories and Master Narratives Singular Stories and Master Narratives: A Prelude .................................... 97 Margaret S . Barrett and Sandra L. Stauffer You’re In or You’re Out: The Impact of Preconceptions on Social Development in the Kindergarten Music Classroom ................................... 99 Martina Miranda Music Education in Homeschooling: Jamie’s Story .................................... 115 Jeananne Nichols v vi Contents Part III Narrative Lessons Narrative Lessons: An Interlude ................................................................... 129 Margaret S . Barrett and Sandra L. Stauffer Music Lessons and Other Stories: Partial Inventory ................................... 131 Rishma Dunlop Part IV Being and Becoming a Teacher Being and Becoming a Teacher: A Prelude .................................................. 159 Margaret S . Barrett and Sandra L. Stauffer Rediscovering Musical Identity Through Narrative in Pre-service Teacher Education .................................................................. 161 Adam Adler Narratives from Preservice Music Teachers: Hearing Their Voices While Singing with the Choir ............................................................. 179 Carole Richardson Collaborative Journals: Scaffolding Refl ective Practice in Teacher Education ...................................................................................... 201 Deborah V. Blair Journey of Self-Exploration: Seeking Understanding Through Musical and Cultural Experiences in South India ....................................... 219 Patricia E. Riley Part V Stories of Selves Stories of Selves: A Prelude ............................................................................ 233 Margaret S. Barrett and Sandra L. Stauffer The Childhood of a Teacher: Allison’s Preservice Years as Baby Pictures .............................................................................................. 235 Margaret Schmidt and Allison Zenner Hitting the Trail Running: Roadmaps and Refl ections on Informal Faculty Mentorship Experiences .............................................. 251 Shelley M. Griffi n = Rodger J. Beatty Elementary General Music Teachers and Professional Development: Kindling the Spark, Fanning the Flame, and Keeping an Eye on the Fire ..................................................................... 275 Alison M. Reynolds Contents vii Part VI Troubling Persistent Questions Troubling Persistent Questions: A Prelude .................................................. 289 Margaret S . Barrett and Sandra L. Stauffer Refusing Narratives: Functional Literacy and Determinism ..................... 291 Cathy Benedict Student Composition in a Private Studio Setting: Rethinking Assumptions ................................................................................ 305 Beth Ann Miller Voices of Two Young Women: Listening to a Growing Selfhood ................ 329 Graça Mota Author Index.................................................................................................... 351 Subject Index ................................................................................................... 355 Author Biographies Adam Adler Adam Adler is Assistant Professor of Education—Curriculum Studies/Music at Nipissing University in North Bay, Ontario, where he teaches music methods and coordinates vocal and piano applied music. He previously served on faculty at the University of Windsor and The Crane School of Music, SUNY Potsdam. A narrative researcher and founding proponent of the c ritical genderist perspective in music and educational research, his current research and lecture efforts are focused on male gender issues in music and education, choral community and sustainability, music teacher preparation, and music curriculum policy. Adam has served as conductor for The Ford Motor Company Chorus (Dearborn, Michigan), Just Singers Chamber Choir of Toronto, The University of Toronto Hart House Singers, and is the founding Artistic Director of Near North Voices—Nipissing University’s Community Choir. He has taught music in schools across southern Ontario and abroad, and is active as a singer, choral clinician, composer and arranger. Jane Baker Jane Baker currently works within the Faculty of Education at the University of Tasmania and is completing a PhD about music learning in garage bands. Previously, she taught music, mathematics, and SOSE in a range of secondary schools, in addition to working within literacy and numeracy programs for infants and primary aged children. Alongside these pursuits, Jane has also worked as a musician and singer since 1988, and continues to perform some gigs with a local country band. Margaret S. Barrett Margaret Barrett is Professor and Head of the School of Music at The University of Queensland. Her research interests include the investi- gation of the role of music and the arts in human thought and activity, creativity and the pedagogy of creative thought and activity, young children’s musical thinking and identity work in and through music, and the meaning and value of the arts for young people. This research has been funded through grants from the Australian Research Council, the Australia Council for the Arts, and the British Academy, and has been published in the key journals of the discipline. Recent publications include: A cultural psychology of music education (2011, OUP), and N arrative inquiry in ix

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This volume focuses specifically on narrative inquiry as a means to interrogate research questions in music education, offering music education researchers indispensible information on the use of qualitative research methods, particularly narrative, as appropriate and acceptable means of conducting
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